Advanced Expert Course in Trauma Intervention and EMDR

Once you know the basic EMDR protocol, the real clinical work begins. Advanced training to take your trauma work to the next level.

Description

There comes a time in the career of any psychotherapist trained in EMDR when initial training is no longer enough. The basic protocols are integrated, safe places are installed with ease, the eight phases are no longer consulted in a notebook. But then cases that the manual doesn't cover begin to appear in the practice:

• The acute crisis that requires immediate intervention.
• The pathological grief that has become entrenched for years.
• The child with early trauma who does not respond to techniques designed for adults.
• The patient with complex trauma and a structural void that any classic intervention would destabilize.

It is precisely for that moment that this program was designed.

The Advanced Expert Course in Trauma Intervention and EMDR, directed by Begoña Aznárez, is neither an introduction nor a repetition of fundamentals. It is advanced training designed for professionals who already have prior EMDR training and want to achieve a higher level of specialization in trauma treatment.

Four dense modules, four demanding clinical territories, and one single objective: that you emerge with real competencies to face the most challenging cases in your practice.

The course deliberately goes beyond the basic protocols. Each module focuses on a specific type of trauma with its own intervention keys, and all blocks are complemented with demonstration videos with real patients —the type of material that at this level is no longer optional, because only by seeing how a protocol is conducted in a real case can one learn to conduct it oneself—.

Block 1: Crisis Intervention with EMDR

You will learn:

• The history and development of crisis protocols.
• The recent trauma protocol —essential for intervening when the event has not yet fully consolidated—.
• The window of tolerance enhancement protocol, a tool that can make the difference between stabilizing an overwhelmed patient or having to stop the therapeutic process.

Each technique accompanied by its corresponding clinical demonstration.

Block 3: Child Psychic Trauma

A field with its own rules that requires adapting EMDR to the specificities of each age:

• You will explore the theoretical foundations —because without understanding what child trauma truly is, one cannot intervene safely—.
• You will work with specific EMDR protocols for child populations, with their nuances according to the developmental stage.
• An extensive section of clinical examples with real patients will allow you to see how language, framing, and technique are modulated when the person on the other side is not an adult but a child who is still building their inner world.

Block 4: Complex Trauma

The most demanding:

• Introduction to decisive clinical concepts such as "the void" and the grid schema, tools to understand the internal structure of patients with chronic, relational, and early traumatization.
• You will learn to read this void and design interventions accordingly.
• You will work with the early intervention protocol for complex trauma, the early mentalization protocol, and an integrative protocol that articulates all of the above within the Brief Psychotherapy model.

Ultimately, you will learn not only to apply more protocols, but to think clinically about trauma in all its complexity and to move confidently among tools according to what each patient needs at any given moment.

All guided by Begoña Aznárez, a psychologist specializing in psychotherapy by the EFPA, president of SEMPyP and IDAE, an EMDR pioneer in Spain since 2007, and a precursor in introducing the concept of psychic trauma in Spanish clinical practice. Her way of teaching EMDR at this advanced level has a clear hallmark: each protocol is delivered with its clinical foundation, its internal logic, and the practical demonstration that allows it to be translated into real intervention from the very next session.